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  "thread": {
    "id": 1097,
    "subject": "Urth-Whorl chronology (possible spoiler)",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2001-02-04T09:50:28+00:00",
    "last": "2001-02-04T09:50:28+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<whorl-v0012-0119@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Nicholas Gevers",
        "address": "vermoulian at yahoo.com"
      },
      "date": "2001-02-04T09:50:28+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Urth-Whorl chronology (possible spoiler)",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "From what I've heard about RETURN TO THE WHORL, I was\nquite correct in my earlier, IGJ-based assumption that\nthe Whorl novels chronologically precede THE BOOK OF\nTHE NEW SUN in GW's overall scheme. And it seems I was\ncorrect in thinking that the Whorl Books would serve\nas some variety of influence or inspiration in the\ncareer of Severian. Herewith an approximate internal\nchronology of the Urth/Whorl Cycle (just the order of\nbooks and stories; speculative dates are mantis's\nprovince):\n\n\"The Boy Who Hooked the Sun\"\n\"The God and His Man\"\n\"Empires of Foliage and Flower\"\nNIGHTSIDE THE LONG SUN\nLAKE OF THE LONG SUN\nCALDE OF THE LONG SUN\nEXODUS FROM THE LONG SUN\n\"The Night Chough\"\nON BLUE'S WATERS\nIN GREEN'S JUNGLES\nRETURN TO THE WHORL\nTHE SHADOW OF THE TORTURER\nTHE CLAW OF THE CONCILIATOR\nTHE SWORD OF THE LICTOR\nTHE CITADEL OF THE AUTARCH\n\"These Are The Jokes\"\n\"The Map\"\n\"The Cat\"\nTHE URTH OF THE NEW SUN\n\"The Old Woman Whose Rolling Pin Is The Sun\"\n\n--Nick Gevers."
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